

Neela Banerjee
Senior Correspondent, Washington, D.C.
Neela Banerjee is a Washington-based reporter for InsideClimate News. She led the investigation into Exxon’s early climate research, which was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service reporting and the recipient of nearly a dozen other journalism awards. Before joining ICN, she spent four years as the energy and environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times’ Washington bureau. Banerjee covered global energy, the Iraq War and other issues with The New York Times. She also served as a Moscow correspondent with The Wall Street Journal. Banerjee grew up in southeast Louisiana and graduated from Yale University.
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As Much as 5 Times More Methane Leaking at Penn. Gas, Oil Sites than Reported
By Neela Banerjee

Emails Reveal Pruitt Was Closely Involved in Scrubbing EPA Climate Websites
By Neela Banerjee

How Federal Giveaways to Big Coal Leave Ranchers and Taxpayers Out in the Cold
By Neela Banerjee, Robert McClure

How Big Oil Lost Control of Its Climate Misinformation Machine
By Neela Banerjee
